Photos: A tour of an HCL Indian campus

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    Inside the outsourcer's largest facility near Delhi

    The area around the Indian city of Noida is a high-tech hub which plays home to a number of the country's IT companies.

    Among them is HCL, India's fourth largest IT services company, which has 25 different offices in the Noida area - the largest of which is shown above.

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    Caption by: Jo Best

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    From this delivery centre in Noida, HCL provides services to customers in sectors including telecoms, healthcare, financial services and manufacturing.

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    The campus in Noida - just outside Delhi - was opened in 2009 and today around 5,000 of HCL's 70,000 employees come to work here every day.

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    The workers at the Noida office have their own canteen which can play host to 1,200 staff in one sitting, as well as a facilities including a doctor and creche.

    The campus is divided into two main buildings - one dedicated to infrastructure and another which houses applications work, shown above.

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    The campus also houses the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, sponsored by the Shiv Nadar Foundation - a philanthropic organisation set up by the HCL founder.

    The museum, opened in January of this year, holds a collection of work by Indian artists, largely from the post-Independence period.

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    The campus museum, which features works by Anish Kapoor and FN Souza, is likely to be moved to a larger location in the Noida area next year, with the aim of moving it to a custom-built "iconic structure" in the next five years, according to Shiv Nadar.

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    The current set-up is phase one of HCL's plan for the campus - a second phase is scheduled for completion next year will add capacity for another 6,500 workers, while a third phase will take the total number of staff at the site to 18,000.

    The building work for phase two - which could see leisure facilities such as a basketball or tennis court added to the campus - is pictured above.

    Photo credit: Jo Best/silicon.com

    Caption by: Jo Best

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Inside the outsourcer's largest facility near Delhi

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Inside the outsourcer's largest facility near Delhi

The area around the Indian city of Noida is a high-tech hub which plays home to a number of the country's IT companies.

Among them is HCL, India's fourth largest IT services company, which has 25 different offices in the Noida area - the largest of which is shown above.

Photo credit: Jo Best/silicon.com

Caption by: Jo Best

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